The Dickinson press., 1887-11-12
THE NEWS IN PARAGRAPHS
Interesting Items Briefly chronicIed
For Our Readers.

tttASiSoNIiR llSIIlo oIISlJ SillSIiiSiSd
For Our Readers.
The growth of the X. of l.. at Montreal
is reported to have been phenomenal. AMI
still continues.
Fourteen persons at Pittsburg were
made seriously sick by drinking poisoned
milk, but it is thought that they will all
recover.
The stock of the Western Onion Tele.
graph company has been increased by
$1,000 600, which makes the total stock
$50, 200, 900.
An entire block was destroyed by fire
at Nashville, Tenn. Loss WAS nearly
$175, 600. Fears are entertained that
some Of the spectators were buried in tho
debris of a falling wall.
The New York Sun says President
Cleveland will remodel his cabinet the
latter part of the month. Mr.. Lamar
will go to the supreme bench, and Villas
be secretary of the interior.
A curious case is now before the SUI
preme court at Ottawa. 1t involves the
right Of the Roman Catholic church to
exact fines from members who have re-
fused to conform to its rules.
The expenses of the navy department
for the fiscal year were $4l6,037 less than
the appropriation.
Gen. Grants famous wal horse Clai-
borne has been presented to the National
military home ut ~Leavenworth.
Animals belonging to John Robinson's
circus got free in n railway collision at
ST. Louis and created great confusion.
Loud complaints come from MnrshDll,
Mimi, ut the scarcity Of cars for shipping
wood to prairie regions. Wood is very
scarce there.
The Macleod, Manitoba, Gazette says
cattlemen along the border will drive
their cattle to the Manitoba road in Mon
tann i'll the event of commercial union
with Canada.
The Canadian authorities have no fear
that the warlike movement OF the Crows
in Montana territory will extend to the
Indians of the same tribe across the bOr-
der.
Farmers in the northwest are in such
. hurry to get their wheat to market
that the country elevators are full and
between 900 and 1900 loaded cars are OH
track at Minneapolis.
The clearings of the Chicago banks
during last week amounted to $64, 3d.
QUO, III increase of s ,0O0,0 600 over the
figures for the corresponding week of last
year. New York banks now hold 81, 1885,
$50 in excess Of the IS per cent. rule.
Iron ore shipments from Ashland this
season have reached a total of 10, 800, 900
tons.
Natural gas has been found in several
places near Des Moines. Preparations
for practical tests of some Of the latest
wells are being made.
Over 2G2, 900 bushels Of wheat have
been marketed ut Church's Ferry, ID. T.,
this season, and the Sun says this repre-
sents but little more than 25 per cent of
the total crop in that vicinity.
The Vermillion Iron Journal, published
at Tower, Mimi, warns all parties to be
careful in buying mining stocks on the
Nermilion range. The paper offers to
assist legitimate mining men in ferreting
out and crushing all dishonest schemes.
All along the Wiuona & st. Peter road
the grain elevators are crowded to their
full capacity.
The first carload of fiax-seed raised in
Towner, d. T., was sold Monday on the
track for 80 cents per hundred, which the
cultivators say is a very fair price.
Thirty outlaws are causing much
trouble in Kinney county, Texas. Sew
eral Mexicans Of small possessions have
mysteriously disappeared and a few
ranches have been raided.
Reports from the Northwest Canadian
territories to officials in Montana say
that most extraordinary crops have beer
raised this season.
N~inety-three carloads Of Montana cat
tie arrived at the South St. Paul stock
yards in two days, and forty carloads
from Dakota points.
The Daily Commercial Bulletins fir,
record for October shows the losses in tn,
United States and Canada to be 50, 760,
S25, against a loss of $12, 900, 900 in Octo
Der, 1886.
Heavy consignments of cattle are beinl
made from the Northwest Canadian terri
tories to Glasgow and. other points il
} Scotland and England. FirSt-class price
are realized.
Typhoid fever is still alarmingly pre-
valent in Indiana, and seems to be in
creasing in malignancy.
) The United States consul at B%araQuilla
| United States of Columbia, reports thu
-four is sold there for $40 q barrel.
: The receipts of wheat at Minneapoli
during last week were greater by 800, 90
bushels than those of the corresponding
week of last year.
: Owing to the protracted drought il
Southern Indiana and Illinois wells hav
given out and streams dried UP, so tina
in some places people are compelled to 6
several miles for drinking water.
MARKET REPORTS.
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